Re: Fwd: AMD x2 chips

From: "Bryan J. Smith" <b j smith ieee org>

To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam HiWAAY net>

Cc: amd64-list redhat com

Subject: Re: Fwd: AMD x2 chips

Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 06:36:13 -0500

On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 14:25 -0600, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> Some of the Tyan boards described on their website seem to imply that
> they have 4-way interleaved RAM (Quad-channel they call it) for some of
> their dual-core boards, that might be the difference you mention ....
> $0.02, no more, no less :-).
Interleaving is just a performance hack to minimize latency.
But it makes sense because you could interleave core requests.
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